Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

- Mizner, Wilson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

11.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

23.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle